Bathing Venus
After a model by Giambologna Netherlandish
Venus’s sinuous pose and sleek surface invited Renaissance viewers to turn the statuette around in their hands and delight the senses of sight and touch. Giambologna invented the groundbreaking composition, called a figura serpentinata, in which bodies "twist like flames" and can be appreciated equally from every vantage point. This bronze’s immaculate casting and fine tooling reveal the goldsmith training of Susini, who was Giambologna’s principal assistant.
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